Tactics of Mistake Quotes

“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“More blood’s been spilled by the militant adherents of prophets of change than by any other group of people down through the history of man.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“I’m not an expert,” said Cletus. “I’m a scholar. There’s a difference. An expert’s a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar’s someone who knows all there is that’s available to be known about it.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“But I’m not an expert,” said Cletus. “I’m a scholar. There’s a difference. An expert’s a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholar’s someone who knows all there is that’s available to be known about it.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger … LESSONS: Anonymous”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“You don’t quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way... To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing. It’s what he doesn’t have that counts.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake

“nearly half the half million were engaged in military occupations other than those of a fighting soldier or officer. And of the more than two hundred and fifty thousand men that this left technically available for active duty in the field, more than a hundred and fifty thousand at any one time were rendered—or managed to render themselves—ineffective through a variety of means and for a variety of causes.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake