In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.