Much learning does not teach understanding.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.