By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.