Source: The Four-Gated City
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“The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
“I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”
“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
Source: The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith
Source: More in Anger
Source: The Power of Leadership
“It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.”
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”
“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None
“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940
Source: The complete works of George Orwell
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
Source: Pensées
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.”
Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
Source: To Jerusalem and Back
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.”
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.”
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”