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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Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.
Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.
If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.