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Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
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If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
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From sage on the stage to guide on the side.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
