The reasonable man

The reasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
  

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If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous
Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.
As long as there is life there is danger.
The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.
The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.