The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
Dancers are the athletes of God.
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind.
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
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 this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.