One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.