There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

War is the province of danger.