Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

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.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Only the educated are free.