The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
SYDNEY J. HARRISA winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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