Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation

The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation