 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 pages
...Success in acquiring the Reality of this Virtue; but I had a good deal with regard to the Appearance of it. — I made it a Rule to forbear all direct Contradiction...positive Assertion of my own. I even forbid myself agreable to the old Laws of our Junto, the Use of every Word or Expression in the Language that imported... | |
 | Dale Carnegie - Self-Help - 2010 - 293 pages
...contradiction to the sentiment of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as 'certainly,' 'undoubtedly,' etc., and I adopted, instead of them, 'I conceive,'... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 552 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...word or expression in the language that imported a fix'd opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, / conceive, I... | |
 | Scott L. Pratt - Philosophy - 2002 - 342 pages
...in this case, recalls the virtue of humility Franklin proposes in his Autobiography and describes as "a Rule to forbear all direct Contradiction to the...Sentiments of others, and all positive Assertion of my own" (Franklin 1987: 1393). As he explains, "When another asserted something that I thought an Error, I... | |
 | Richard Stengel - Social Science - 2002 - 326 pages
...them, but because it was a no-win strategy for getting what you wanted. "I made it a Rule," he writes, "to forbear all direct Contradiction to the Sentiments...of others, and all positive Assertion of my own." This in itself is a kind of flattery, the flattery of not contradicting, the flattery of not disabusing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present. When... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...undoubtedly, etc., and I adopted instead of them, I conceive, I comprehend, or / imagine, a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at present.... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 330 pages
...Contradiction of the Sentiments of others, and all positive Assertions of my own. I even forbid myself agreable to the old Laws of our Junto, the Use of every Word or Expression in the Language that imported a fix'd Opinion; such as certainly, undoubtedly, &c and I adopted instead of them, / conceive, I apprehend,... | |
 | Alfred Adler - Adlerian psychology - 2002 - 265 pages
...success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction...positive assertion of my own. I even forbid myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly,... | |
 | Anna Wierzbicka - History - 2006 - 374 pages
...social interaction. Again, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is highly illuminating on this point: I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others. . . . When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting... | |
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I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue, but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own.... 
