To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.

.من المستحيل ألا ينتهي المرء إلى أن يكون مثلما يظنه الآخرون

One of the greatest challenges of becoming myself has been acknowledging that I’m not who I thought I was supposed to be or who I always pictured myself being.

What seems is not what is. People are not what they appear to be.

It’s hard nowadays to get people to believe things. At least good things.

Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.

you will know that it is a more difficult work to reject the opinion of others than to establish your own.

The hard part of intellectual life is separating what is true from what will get you liked.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.