Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
