Of Laws and Men

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken.

Tim Ferriss

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

Alfred North Whitehead

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

It is surprising how easy it is to forget that the way to get things done is to do them.

Mark Forster

The power of accurate observation is often mistaken for cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Alfred North Whitehead

If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking.

George Patton Jr

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Dale Carnegie

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Miller

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Albert Einstein

If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.

Malcolm Forbes

The self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz