Echoes

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

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

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

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

...if you are nothing but profit-conscious, you cannot see the opportunities ahead.

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

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

I know that I know nothing.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.