The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.

Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.

The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary, yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.