Ability, Advice, Actions, Age, Anger, Argument, Art and Attitude.

This is my compilation of all quotations regarding Ability, Advice, Actions, Age, Anger, Argument, Art, and Attitude.


- The less their ability, the more their conceit.
-Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue then education without natural ability.
-There is simply no limit to your abilities. If there ever was a limit, it is created by the person who is being limited.
-All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
-I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
-People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
-The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
-Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
-Never forget what a person says to you when he is angry.
-Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
-Never get angry. Never make a threat. Always try to reason with people. We are people after all.
-If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
-It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
-Anger is a powerful but negative energy. If only we could channel that powerful energy in the right direction.
-Understanding is the path to take before you apply logic into anything.
-It is not wrong to be angry. But acting upon anger is wrong.
-If you want to find out whether your plan or theory has any flaws, argue about it.