Imagination is more important than knowledge...
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.
I am not keeping back facts. Every fact that I know is in your possession. You can draw your own deductions from them.
See you, my dear doctor, me, I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it — none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.