Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.

Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of read more

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . read more

For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.

Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.