“ Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the r… Steven Erikson
“ You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. Winston S. Churchill
“ Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in Tennessee Williams
“ Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the… Paul Sabatier
“ When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two… Bertrand Russell
“ A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we car… George Eliot
“ A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. Th… Shelby Foote
“ Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of mankind is Man.Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise and rudely great:With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side… Alexander Pope
“ Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...[it is] quite likely that the fate of entire soc… Michael Lewis
“ Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood. James Clavell
“ If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to del… Richard C. Carrier
“ The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have. Richard M. Weaver
“ We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. Ian McDonald
