Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
智慧的真正标志不是知识,而是想象力。
Mental processes are nature's way of solving life's problems.