Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
  

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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.
Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.
you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.
You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.
Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.
Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.
Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.
The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.
Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.