We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. |

You should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. |

The object of the superior man is truth. |

Learning never exhausts the mind. |

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. |

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. |

Minds are simply what brains do. |

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. |

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. |

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. |

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. |

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. |

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. |

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time. |

A drawing of a tree shows not a tree but a tree being looked at. |

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. |

The Fox knows many things – the hedgehog one big one. |

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. |

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make. |

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth. |

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. |

Common sense is not so common. |

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. |

Compassion is not a virtue—it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have—it’s something we choose to practice. |