It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.
The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.
Authority is mainly a moral power; therefore, it must first call upon the conscience, that is, upon the duty that each person has to contribute willingly to the common good.
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Knowledge is power.
An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.