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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Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.
Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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.
The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war
The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.
Renown and repose do not go together.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.
Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.
Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.