You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

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

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.