The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.