The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

William Blake

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Augustine of Hippo

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

The experience of many of us is not that 'insistence on sameness' jumps out unbidden and unwanted and makes our lives hard, but that 'insistence on sameness' is actually a way of adapting to a confusing and chaotic environment.

Dora Raymaker

He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.

Albert Einstein

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Voltaire