"When I am getting ready to reason..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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More by Abraham Lincoln “That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” “I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.” “I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.” More on Communication “Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections - whether from diffidence or some other instinct.” “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” “Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;And that is why their lovers are afraidTo tell them a plain story.”
