The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
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.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.