It
is true that ninety-nine percent of the effort is dumb power and not
intelligence. But it is also true that
the inertia behind the largest ship is ninety-nine percent steel and power, but
that remaining one percent is the rudder. Never underestimate how much so little can do.
For meaningful truth, the simpler it is, the more courage it takes, but that is all it takes. Otherwise you would already have it. The more complicated the truth, the more likely you are merely too timid for relevant truth.
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A fact without adequate interpretation is a form of
trespassing.
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History is the survival of those details most fit to a
culture’s equilibrium.
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Hindsight is only twenty-twenty because as time passes there
are fewer and fewer challenges to prejudice.
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For meaningful truth, the simpler it is, the more courage it takes, but that is all it takes. Otherwise you would already have it. The more complicated the truth, the more likely you are merely too timid for relevant truth.