FridayNov 28, 2025
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
The ultimate high: a man's abilities equaling his opinion of them.
A bore is someone who persists in holding his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic processthey have neither the tolerance nor the depth it takes democracy isn't a business.
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
It's very flattering to ask others about matters they're little qualified to discuss.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.
One often reads about the art of conversationhow it's dying or what's needed to make it flourish, or how rare good ones are. But wouldn't you agree that the infinitely more valuable rara avis [rare bird] is a good listener.
Living and dreaming are two different things but you can't do one without the other.
Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.
Meaningful truths are never newly discovered; they're just uncovered anew.
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
... the most difficult thing asked by our young is not our earnings but our ears.
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Nothing is sometimes the right thing to say.
The smart ones ask when they dont know. And, sometimes, when they do.
It's much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Trying to impress others does usually in quite the opposite way.
Most of us are better when things go better.
Unconsciously I had discovered the commentator's secret weaponthat so long as you can wield words, it isn't necessary to know what you're talking about.
It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.
A man can't do more than he can but he can at least do that much.
Advice it's more fun to give than to receive.
Attention it's more fun to get than to give.
Give much...get same.
If you don't know what you want to do it's harder to do it.
Most everyone wants to do what's fair, right and good. Knowing what is is often the tough part.
To the infantryman, his country's military might is only those buddies he can see, and the equipment they have at hand; likewise, to the wage-earner, 'free enterprise' is primarily the way his boss treats him and those around him.
Thinkers perish. Thoughts don't.
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.
There's a big difference between cheap and reasonable.
Sometimes doing what's expected is more effective than doing the unexpected.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
The hardest work of all doing nothing.
There's no way to move without making waves.
The day nothing turns you on you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world is the power of a smile.
Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.
In the long run, a short cut seldom is.
If you want understanding try giving some.
Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Too few accomplish twice as much as too many.
Too many people overvalue what they're not and undervalue what they are.
When profit is unshared it's less likely to grow greater.
When the mood moves you move with it.
When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.
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