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

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Information is not knowledge.

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If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable o...more

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The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this or...more

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It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for t...more

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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable o...more

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Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

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I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

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It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contra...more

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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

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Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

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The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blind...more

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.