We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.
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.
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.