I liketo listen. I

I liketo listen. I
I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
  

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Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.
The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
All thingsat first appear difficult.
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.
Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.
Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.
I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.
Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.