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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A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.
Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.
Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.
If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.
Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.
No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.