“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.” MenMadeFactsLyingAbilityClassSucceedEncouragementSpiteCommentAssistanceEmployersScarce Book:A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written
“In spite of Death, the mark and seal of the parental control, Man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticise, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is acquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.” KnowsMenWorldYearsLyingForceImaginationMarkSpiteSuperioritySealsParentalCriticise Book:Mysticism and Logic Source: Mysticism and Logic