Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating 10 more. |

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done... |

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. |

Walk with those seeking truth... Run from those who think they've found it. |

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think (...) must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process. |

A wise person is made and not born. |

A wise person knows when and how to make the exception to every rule. |

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. |

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? |

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe… What we believe determines what we take to be true. |

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. |

To teach is to create a space in which obedience to truth is practiced. |

He who reads much and walks much, goes far and knows much. |

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be. |

In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. |

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. |

I will learn by screwing up. |

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. |

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamppost - for support rather than illumination. |

When we see a rose, we immediately say, rose. We do not say, I see a roundish mass of delicately shaded reds and pinks. We immediately pass from the actual experience to the concept. [...]
We cannot help living to a very large extent in terms of concepts. We have to do so, because immediate experience is so chaotic and so immensely rich that in mere self-preservation we have to use the machinery of language to sort out what is of utility for us, what in any given context is of importance, and at the same time to try to understand—because it is only in terms of language that we can understand what is happening. We make generalizations and we go into higher and higher degrees of abstraction, which permit us to comprehend what we are up to, which we certainly would not if we did not have language. And in this way language is an immense boon, which we could not possibly do without. |

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers. |

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. |

To look is to learn, if you listen carefully. |