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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.


The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.


The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.


Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.


When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.


There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.


Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.


Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.


Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.


Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.


Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.


When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.


Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?


Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.


Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.


The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.


The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.


Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.


People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.


Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.