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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My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Some people suffer in silence louder than others
Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.
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.
If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.
Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.
It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.