Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it.

So, wonder! I also wonder about you,' said Cadfael mildly. 'Do you know any human creatures who are not strangers, one to another?

Knowledge is God, respect it to get respect.

The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds 'stupid') rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.

Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.

When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.

Dare to seek knowledge.

A person with a big ego usually knows very little.

To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater depth than we know ourselves.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.