You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Liberation is not deliverance.