Leadership does not depend on being right.
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Thus in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself and the human sciences form an independent system.
The general knowledge of time on the island depends curiously enough on the direction of the wind.
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man with his powers of reason has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do aided by modern technology which enables me having long since moved beyond longhand to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.