James

“One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot