With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.