I know youbelieve you

I know youbelieve you
I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.
  

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Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares
Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.