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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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.
Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them
Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'
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.
Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.