It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Topic: Character, Communication, Listening, Reputation
- Location: Hawaii, Kula, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
Where words fail, music speaks.
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Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
We doctors know a hopeless case if—listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door.
A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
