It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.
Amy Lowell, Murasaki Shikibu, Annie Shepley Omori, Kochi Doi (2003). “Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan”, p.24, Courier Corporation
