I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

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.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.