But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
When I consider the deeper meaning of yoga, I realize it's about a lot more than simply performing a variety of postures on a mat.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.
