"The smarter a man is the more he needs God to protect him from thinking he knows everything."

George Webb  Pima

He had much knowledge about himself as an alcoholic. Yet all reasons fo not drinking were easily pushed aside in favor of the foolish idea that he could take whiskey if only he mixed it with milk!

Big Book  pgs. 36 & 37

  
But the actual or potential alcoholic, with hardly an exception, will be absolutely unable to stop drinking on the basis of self-knowledge. This is a point we wish to emphasize and re-emphasize, to smash home upon our alcoholic readers as it has been revealed to us out of bitter experience.

Big Book  pg. 39

 
Once more: The alcoholic at certain times has no effective mental defense against the first drink. Except in a few rare cases, neither he nor any other human being can provide such a defense. His defense must come from a Higher power.

Big Book  pg. 43

 Great Mystery, I am weak I need your help.