The aimof argument

The aimof argument
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
  

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Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important
We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.
Opportunists take now for an answer.
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.
Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused