Greatideas often receive

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

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When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.
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
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.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.