In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
