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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

I understand Jung’s vague, imprecise notions, but I consider them worthless—a lot of talk without any clear direction. If there has to be a psychiatrist, I should prefer Freud. I do not believe in him, but I love very much his concise style and his original, although rather extravagant, mind.

Shaw is undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest figures. I once said of him that his plays remind me of Mozart. There is not one superfluous word in Shaw’s prose, just as there is not one superfluous note in Mozart’s" music.

Shaw is undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest figures. I once said of him that his plays remind me of Mozart. There is not one superfluous word in Shaw’s prose, just as there is not one superfluous note in Mozart’s" music.

You, who have gotten under the skin of so many people and, indeed, of humanity, have had no occasion to slip under mine.

Ptolemy made a universe, which lasted 1400 years. Newton also made a universe, which

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. “

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Autobiographies mostly arise out of narcissism or negative feelings toward others. Biographies from the pen of another person tend in their psychological traits to reflect the intellectual and spiritual nature of the writer more than that of the person portrayed.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

I hardly ever felt as alienated from people as I do right now… The worst is that nowhere is there anything with which one can identify. Brutality and lies are everywhere.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of the truth.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions.

Isn’t all of philosophy like writing in honey? It looks wonderful at first sight, but when you look again it is all gone. Only the smear is left.

I was originally supposed to become an engineer, but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.