An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.