We ownalmost all

We ownalmost all
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
  

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Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.
Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.
If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.
There is no knowledge that is not power.