Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 2

The measure of education should not be knowledge regurgitated, expertise applied, or money earned, but the testimony of lives well and fully lived.

When a rule is broken, the first impulse of rule makers is to make another. The better remedy rarely occurs to them—remove the rule.

We will not master nature by defying or altering it, but by surrendering opposition and becoming one with it.

Belief is not dangerous until it turns absolute.

A book is far more than what the author wrote; it is everything you can imagine and read into it as well.

Controlling others is force; controlling self is power.

Getting and having, not being and becoming, now govern our lives, and terrible taskmasters they are indeed.

To proclaim the most efficient as the best is nonsense. Best is that which is most effective in the circumstances whether efficient or not.

Love and respect for others and for self are codeterminate.

If one knows how to formulate penetrating questions and assiduously seek answers, education, with or without schools, is inevitable.