When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
Silence is often the best thing to say.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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