A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.