Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'

Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to prove what I believe, I can't. You know them to be true but you could spend a whole lifetime without being able to prove them. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap—call it intuition or what you will—and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

Those who manage their way into a crisis are not necessarily the right people to manage their way out of a crisis