Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
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.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.