Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
People think of education as something that they can finish.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn’t worth discussing.
