Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life but a way of wasting some force an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time watching hunger nakedness dizziness in the head weakness in the stomach and other inconveniences.
It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness that our only hope is in God.