Wisdom in SpaceBelief means not wanting to know what is true.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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It's taken all my life to learn what not to play.
-- Dizzy Gillespie
Top-down knowledge is an illusion. Education without erudition is nothing.
-- Nassim Taleb
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
-- Roald Dahl (The Twits)
It is hard to fail but worse never to have tried to succeed.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
The first indications of the intelligence of a ruler are given by the quality of the men around him. If they are capable and loyal, he should always be taken to be shrewd, because he was able to recognize their ability and retain their loyalty. But if they are mediocre and disloyal, a low estimate of him will never be mistaken, because the most important error he has made is to choose them.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. Of a good leader, when his work is done the people will say, "We did this ourselves."
-- Tao Te Ching
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-- Francis Bacon
