"To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift

“Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.”

“How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.”

“hoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumors so little founded on truth Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”

“What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.”

“The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.”

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

“A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy”

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”