The roots of education

The roots of education
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
  

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Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Only the educated are free.
In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.
One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Modesty is the clothing of talent.
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.
Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
In all superstitions wise men follow fools.
you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.