When you know better you do better.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
My weapon is literature
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
A witty saying proves nothing.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
