Intelligence is not

Intelligence is not
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
  

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Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.
Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.
Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.
Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.
He who truly knows has no occasion to shout
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.
Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.
Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.