Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of... -Omar N. Bradley

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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

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Omar N. Bradley Quotes to Explore

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living....
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts....
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead....
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living....
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner....
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death....
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it....
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship....

Wisdom Quotes to Explore

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but ...
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning,...
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces...
Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated f...
The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb....
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorg...
What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom....
My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me....
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom....
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show inst...