wisdom

"Sovereignty and kingship are never decided by academic debate. They are seized by force. The Ottoman dynasty appropriated by force the government of the Turks, and reigned over them for six centuries.…"

"But let me stress again that these are my views — for contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President who happens…"

"On the other hand, the cheapest form of pride is national pride; for the man affected therewith betrays a want of individual qualities of which he might be proud, since he would not otherwise resort t…"

"Don't be a wise guy in here, sir. There's only one wise person in here - and that's Byrd."

"To all the unheard wisdom in the school yard: you think you're the right ones; you swear you're the charmed ones I'm sure. But how can you go on with such conviction? Who do you think you are when you…"

"We know only too well that all over the world, from wayward undergraduate to B. B. C. producer to publisher's reader there are people, otherwise sensible and sane, people who would not believe in six-…"

"Man is wise ... when he recognises no greater enemy than himself."

"A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters."

"The dictionary definition of communication includes the communication of goods and supplies. But transport of goods is not communication in the sense we are adopting here, and does not raise the same …"

"It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman, and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe."

"You'll use it , boy, and as long as you hate using it, you would use it more wisely than most men would. Wait. If ever you don't hate it any longer, then will be the time to throw it as far as you can…"

"A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished."

"Everything you learned in the past is irrelevant, except for the wisdom that pertains to Now."

"Trained chauvinists. When they get together, they talk about pussy. I heard them talk, and there was no genuine intimacy. When I first met them, I thought they were such macho boobs. Then I got to kno…"

"Snow had fallen and from the museum you had a beautiful view of a valley with a railway, through some sheds, etc. But I could not finish it, and today, Sunday, I went back there again, but then the sn…"

"The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime."

"In war, men lose what makes them great. Their creativity. Their wisdom. Their joy. All that's left is their utility. War is not monstrous for making corpses of men so much as it is for making machines…"

"You can be a hero, or you can be a zero. And the choice is yours. But we are all watching. The whole world is watching, folks. Choose wisely."

"Did you ever wake up with an erection...and then you realize you're just in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"

"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing."