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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist
Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.
Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.
It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.
A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.