The nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.