Quotes
“With our thoughts, we make the world.”
“When you exhaust all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t.”
“There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.”
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
“Education is what survives when what is learned is forgotten.”
“I never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
“Minds are like parachutes. They don’t work unless you open them.”
Ma ka hana ka ‘ike
“In the work is the knowledge”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most
responsive to change.”
“Real change is always painful.”
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”
“Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.”
“That’s why they call it “fishing” instead of “catching.”
“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right
questions.”
“As an adolescent, I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty and I thirsted for a
meaningful vision of human life—so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an
archbishop so you can meet girls.”
“My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it’s gone.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave
when we don’t know what to do.”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than
complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s
worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
“Simple ain’t easy”
“Everything that can be invented has been invented,”
“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of
examples that said you can’t do this.”
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of
communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”