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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There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'
Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.
The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.
What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.