The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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