A cup is useful only

A cup is useful only
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
  

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Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.
People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.
All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical