Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation