29 Quotes by Bergen Evans

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom...