If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Analytics will never tell you everything you want to know.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.