If you change the environment, you change the people.
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve.
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
The opposite of nature is impossible.
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
Everyone is born a genius.
Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
Our power is in our ability to decide.
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
None of the world’s problems will have a solution until the world’s individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.