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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Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.
Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.
Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.
Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.