Learning, the destroyer of

Learning, the destroyer of
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
  

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I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.
No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.
We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him
Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.
The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.