Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.