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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

21 other sayings from William Wordsworth

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

9 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

13 sayings from John Muir

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

14 more views from Edward Gibbon

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

7 quotes from Arnold J. Toynbee

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

14 quotes from Edward Gibbon

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

45 more wisdom & wit from Bertrand Russell

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

24 other views from James A. Baldwin

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

45 views from Bertrand Russell

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

11 quotes from John Stuart Mill

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

11 thoughts from John Stuart Mill

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

24 quotes from James A. Baldwin

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

24 more thoughts from James A. Baldwin

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

11 more quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

46 quotes from John F. Kennedy

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

8 other quotes from Stokely Carmichael

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

47 more quotes from George Orwell

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

5 quotes from Brigham Young

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

6 other quotes from Charles Kingsley

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

18 more quotes from Pearl S. Buck

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

45 sayings from Aldous Huxley

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

8 sayings from Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

8 views from Benito Mussolini

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

7 more sayings from John Quincy Adams

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

2 sayings from Thurgood Marshall

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

22 views from Samuel Richardson

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

15 quotes from Walter Scott

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

3 views from Maggie Kuhn

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

3 sayings from David O. McKay

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

26 quotes from Theodor Adorno

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

26 views from Theodor Adorno

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

5 views from Cesare Pavese

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

4 more quotes from Henry George

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

103 more views from Friedrich Nietzsche

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

28 quotes from Napoleon Hill

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

15 more wisdom & wit from William Penn

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing to be able to dare!

10 views from Fyodor Dostoevsky

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

78 other views from Voltaire

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

5 other quotes from Abigail Adams

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

10 more quotes from Billy Sunday

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

13 quotes from Andrew Carnegie

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

19 wisdom & wit from Jonathan Swift

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

78 more wisdom & wit from Voltaire

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

25 wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

68 quotes from Samuel Butler

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

7 other quotes from Phillips Brooks

By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

46 more quotes from George Santayana

Expose yourself to your deepest fear after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

14 quotes from Jim Morrison

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

5 views from George Whitefield

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

7 thoughts from Samuel Smiles

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

37 other thoughts from Edmund Burke

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

17 other sayings from Plutarch

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

13 sayings from Alexander Hamilton

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

13 views from Alexander Hamilton

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

67 thoughts from Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

67 quotes from Francis Bacon

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

14 quotes from Charles de Montesquieu

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

75 sayings from Aristotle

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

24 thoughts from Ayn Rand

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

29 other thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

25 quotes from Simone Weil

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

45 thoughts from John Ruskin

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

22 quotes from Henry Adams

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

3 other sayings from W. E. B. Du Bois

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

45 more sayings from John Ruskin

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

16 quotes from Erich Fromm

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

5 thoughts from Amelia Barr

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

105 more sayings from Albert Einstein

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

27 other quotes from James Madison

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

16 wisdom & wit from Erich Fromm

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

9 more views from Andrew Jackson