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

The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does notdecide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to dowhat it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

One should count each day a separate life.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

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

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

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

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

You canmake 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.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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

We are the prisoners of ideas.

Why don''tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don''t is thatyou''re in conflict with yourself.