Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Truth like gold is to be obtained not by its growth but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A truer image of the world I think is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

God is stronger than their strength more loving than their uttermost love and in so far as they have loved and sacrificed themselves for others they have obtained the infallible proof that God too lives and loves and gives Himself away.

You do not know our culture our ethics or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly how much more then in spiritual?

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained will be permanent whether to individuals or nations unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies including preliminary examinations in botany zoology physics and chemistry was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

In my book I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal necessary and saved lives.

Real knowledge like everything else of value is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for studied for thought for and more that all must be prayed for.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but while their companions slept they were toiling upward in the night.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice and were indulged not only with impunity but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty and that such equality may best and perhaps only be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

People who have tried it tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well and is cheaper and more easily obtained.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour for mankind employed and then when most you share it best enjoyed.