The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".