Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom; and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than any stock of the former