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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Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.
Toeffectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the waywe perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to ourcommunication with others.
Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
The World is but, a school of inquiry.
A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.
Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.