Education is the ability

Education is the ability
Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
  

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Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.
The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.
We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.
It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
To teach isto learn twice.
I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.