Quotes Quotes - Page 19

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to bedominating thought in one''s mind.

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as hesees himself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, inother words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn''t sit for a month.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

When we blame, we give away our power.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success isknowing how to get along with people.

He who angers you, conquers you.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in otherpeople than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested inyou.

So remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant''s point of view.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you''ll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

The most important of life''s battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

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

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it should do,and a part that does what it feels like doing.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Even a fish wouldn''t get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

All signs are misleading.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

If you truly want honesty, don''t ask questions you don''t really want the answer to.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

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

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

No wisdom like silence.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

A man''s ruin lies in his tongue.

Evensilence speaks.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.