Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.