"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even……" — Carl von Clausewitz
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
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Carl von Clausewitz
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97 Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends…
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men…
— Andrew Carnegie
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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as…
— Kurt Lewin
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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women,…
— Margaret Mead
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them…
— Marcel Proust
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a…
— Annie Besant
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At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter…
— Carl Sagan
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap…
— Joshua Reynolds
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal…
— Robert Collier
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