Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.