Echoes

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

I know that I know nothing.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Boredom is the root of all evil — the despairing refusal to be oneself.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines and use them routinely — all of them, not just a few.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.