Famous Quotes

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

George Santayana on Power

More quotes about Power

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

  Abraham Lincoln on Power

• "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

  Margaret Thatcher on Power

• "Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."

  Bruce Lee on Power

• "All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Power

• "Character is power."

  Booker T. Washington on Power

More quotes by George Santayana

• "The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age."

• "Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine."

• "An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

• "The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

• "It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands."