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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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.
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.
A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.
It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.
I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.