A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite sure what that would be. The person who was bullying him produced a photograph of his wife from his wallet and said, "There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is." Picasso looked at it and said, "She is rather small, isn't she? And flat?"

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Science probes; it does not prove.