The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

... 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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.