Optimists and pessimists

Optimists and pessimists
Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.
  

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A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.
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
Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Habit: the shackles of the free
Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.
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.
True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.
Renown and repose do not go together.
Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.
Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.