Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”