Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive rea… - Bertrand Russell

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

Education is not to be viewed as something like filling a vessel with water but, rather, assisting a flower to grow in its own way

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...].
The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.