Pavel

“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”
― Mark Twain

“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”
― Friedrich von Schiller