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So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Life is not supposed to make things complex. It is to unwind things, by giving simple answers to simple questions.

We learn what something is not — and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

I am not only a thing, but also a way of being — one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

I've got to grow up. For me it means everything...

Desperation guides us in life. Rationality does not.

The foolish thing was trying to solve the problem all by myself. But the deeper I get tangled up in this mass of dreams and memories the more I realize that emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are.

No government will ever surrender to the wishes of its people. No society will ever be free from the control of its government.

Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?