One Disloyal Subject Keeps the Despot Sane

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Every despot must have one disloyal subject to keep him sane. – George Bernard Shaw




He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment. – Confucius



A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. – Charles de Gaulle



Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. – Hindu Proverb



Kindness the most unkindest thing of all. – Edna O’Brien



Really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not in them but through them. – John Ruskin



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon



A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. – Jawaharlal Nehru

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Facts: Labels on Empty Bottles

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Facts apart from their relationships are like labels on empty bottles. – Sven Halla




You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought. – Karl Kraus



The direction of the mind is more important than its progress. – Joseph Joubert



Deliberation. The act of examining one’s bread to determine which side it is buttered on. – Ambrose Bierce



In a million people there are a thousand thinkers, and in a thousand thinkers there is one self thinker. – Ludwig Borne



Hundreds can talk to one who can think; thousands can think to one who can see. – John Ruskin



What was once thought can never be unthought. – Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Do Ignored Facts still Exist?

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Don’t look for a fifth foot of a cat. – Spanish proverb




Never cut when you can untie. – Joseph Joubert



He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. – John Ruskin



An ant hole may collapse an embankment. – Japanese proverb



Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life. – John Lubbock



The greatest American superstition is belief in facts. - Hermann Keyserling



Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. – Aldous Leonard Huxley

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One Cannot Govern with Buts

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Not to decide is to decide. – Harvey Cox

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” – Lewis Carroll

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. – William Gurney Benham

He who builds according to every man’s advice will have a crooked house. – Danish proverb

One cannot govern with buts. – Charles de Gaulle

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. – John Ruskin

A mind all logic is lke a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. – Rabindranath Tagore

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