There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
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