Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Vladimir Lenin

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Rene Descartes

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene Descartes

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler

Words derive their power from the original word.
Meister Eckhart

The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
George Orwell

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
Richard Dawkins