Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.