Every age thinks

Every age thinks
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.
  

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Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.
Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it
There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.
Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Suspicion begets suspicion.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.