The greatest virtue

The greatest virtue
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
  

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A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.
In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.
To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.
He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.
A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.
Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.