Learning, the destroyer of

Learning, the destroyer of
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
  

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Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.
Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.