The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have read more

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything read more

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, read more

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and read more

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.