Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Think globally, act locally.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.