Jorge Luis Borges: Fame is a form—perhaps the worst form—of incomprehension.

Fame is a form—perhaps the worst form—of incomprehension. — Jorge Luis Borges

Fame is a form—perhaps the worst form—of incomprehension.

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The time for your labor has been granted. — Jorge Luis Borges
Para uno de esos gnosticos, el visible universo era una ilusion o (mas precisame — Jorge Luis Borges
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia. — Jorge Luis Borges
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor. — Jorge Luis Borges
"For myself, I detest the fellow, and think him a charlatan. I am certain that, — Ivan Turgenev
It is ill to praise, and worse to reprimand in matters that you do not understan — Leonardo da Vinci
Criticism is the art of reproaching others for not having the qualities we think — Jules Renard
All the things that Aristotle has said are inconsistent because they are poorly — Aristotle
Il faut toujours en fait de nouvelles attendre le sacrement de la confirmation. — Voltaire
Observantior æqui Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parer — The people become more observant of justice
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. — Khalil Gibran
You say it as you understand it. — Friedrich Schiller