Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.