The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered.
The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered.
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it… did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.