When we enter a new situation in life and are confronted by a new person, we bring with us the prejudices of the past and our previous experiences of people. These prejudices we project upon the new person. Indeed, getting to know a person is largely a matter of withdrawing projections; of dispelling the smoke screen of what we imagine he is like and replacing it with the reality of what he is actually like.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence th…

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child.

Note for the record. In the all that was said about me, it was not me saying it, and if you see a false prophet, it is only a reflection of your judgments, for…

It is true that that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and…

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.