Quotes Quotes - Page 104

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Power doesn''t corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man''s character, give him power.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

To ease another''s heartache is to forget one''s own.

To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics

To err is human; to realy mess things up requires a computer.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one''s freedom.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

To teach isto learn twice.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education; what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Think big, believe big and act big for gaining victory over your difficulties.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

There can be no high civilisation where there is not ample leisure.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men''s souls.