Much learning does not teach understanding.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.