Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.