Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.