Understanding a question is half an answer.
- Topic: Communication, Listening, Public Speaking, Speech, Thinking
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We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Man is a social animal.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.