Echoes

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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

As designers, we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.

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

Good design is honest. It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.

Good design is unobtrusive. Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user's self-expression.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Good design is thorough down to the last detail. Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.

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

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

I felt before I thought: this is the common lot of humanity.

In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.

Nature of the world was not created for us by divine will: such great fault is inherent in it.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.