It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Nobody has ever expected me to be president. In my poor, lean lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you, mine are still greater.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Our ultimate objective is to make programs that learn from their experience as effectively as humans do. We shall...say that a program has common sense if it automatically deduces for itself a sufficient wide class of immediate consequences of anything it is told and what it already knows
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubts.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Artificial intelligence is that field of computer usage which attempts to construct computational mechanisms for activities that are considered to require intelligence when performed by humans.
AI is about making machines more fathomable and more under the control of human beings, not less. Conventional technology has indeed been making our environment more complex and more incomprehensible, and if it continues as it is doing now the only conceivable outcome is disaster.
Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work that a man can do.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.