The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.