Huh. MMT.

  • Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
  • Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
  • Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
  • I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
  • I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
  • I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
  • I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
  • I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
  • If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
  • Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  • Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
  • Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
  • It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
  • It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
  • Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
  • Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
  • Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
  • Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
  • No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
  • Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and beauty.
  • Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
  • Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
  • Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
  • The high density of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
  • The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
  • The only real valuable thing is intuition.
  • The only source of knowledge is experience.
  • The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
  • The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
  • The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
  • True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
  • Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
  • Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
  • You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
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