The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.
In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.
No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.
The great despisers are the greater reverers.
... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen
Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.
Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.
Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.