You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

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

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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

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.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.