Famous Quotes

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power."

Rene Descartes 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 Rene Descartes

• "The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."

• "I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error."

• "I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."

• "It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well."

• "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."