Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
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.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
It’s interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.