Onemust talk little and listen much.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.