Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

我不相信运气。我相信准备遇到机会。

"The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors."

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.