Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.