Greatideas often receive

Greatideas often receive
Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  

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I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
Melancholy is the joy of being said.
Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.
You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.
To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.
You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.
It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.
The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.