Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important