Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.