Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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