The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Thereare two sides to every question.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.