The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker’s toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies.
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
Most police officers are good cops and good people.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort.
The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
To be doing good deeds is man’s most glorious task.
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
One of the most beautiful things in the world is seeing a mommy with her kids. There’s nothing more beautiful, nothing more sublime.
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.
Love yourself for who you are, and trust me, if you are happy from within, you are the most beautiful person, and your smile is your best asset.
I’m a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
The human voice: It’s the instrument we all play. It’s the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It’s the only one that can start a war or say ‘I love you.’ And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don’t listen to them.
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
