Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

If one must fight or create it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning the knowledge of the world is only to be acquired by reading men and studying all the various facets of them.

Successful organizations including the Military have learned that the higher the risk the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.