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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Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.
Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to
Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
God made time, but man made haste.