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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.