Greatideas often receive

Greatideas often receive
Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  

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Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.
The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.
Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.
Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.