“You will not be good teachers if you focus only on what you do and not upon who you are.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LXVI
Following the Equator (1897)
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
“That’s the best thing about being dead. It’s like being stupid. It’s only painful for others.”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
“Some mothers will do anything for their children, except let them be themselves.”
Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.”
“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Letter to Jost Winteler (1901), quoted in The Private Lives of Albert Einstein by Roger Highfield and Paul Carter (1993), p. 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=zY7FE9ZyDO0C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false. Einstein had been annoyed that Paul Drude, editor of Annalen der Physik, had dismissed out of hand some criticisms Einstein made of Drude's electron theory of metals.
1900s
Variant: A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.
