The wise man learns

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

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To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.
Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
The weaknesses of many make leader possible.
In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.
you salute your duty,you need not salute anybody. But if u pollute ur duty, u hav 2 salute every body.... -ABDUL KALAM
Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.
Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.