The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.