an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.

If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Whoever among you thinks himself wise must become a fool to be truly wise

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Perhaps it’s inevitable; perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all, or impersonating what one is. That would be terrible,’ he said to himself: ‘it would mean that we were duped by nature.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

One should not want to be anything but what one is, because it creates unhappiness.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.