LearnersTrek Favorite Quotes

No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
-- Neils Bohr

Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth,
but run from those who have found it.
-- Vaclav Havel

A witty saying proves nothing.
-- Voltaire

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the
conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any
talent for abstract, positive thinking.
-- Albert Einstein

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Henri Bergson

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Eden Phillpotts

Anyone who has begun to think places some
portion of the world in jeopardy.
-- John Dewey

Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat.
-- Author unknown

The highest reward for a person's toil is not
what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
-- John Ruskin

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if
he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Doubt is the key to knowledge.
-- Persian Proverb

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
-- Abraham Heschel

The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and
the intelligent are full of doubt.
--Bertrand Russell

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and science.
-- Albert Einstein

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-- Lord Alfred Tennyson

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
-- George Bernard Shaw

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear,
but around in awareness.
-- James Thurber

If knowledge can create problems, it is not
through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
-- Albert Einstein