**#1.** Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. **#2.** Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. **#3.** Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. **#4.** If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. **#5.** A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. **#6.** Love is a better teacher than duty. **#7.** If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. **#8.** No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. **#9.** Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. **#10.** Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. **#11.** It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. **#12.** Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. **#13.** Force always attracts men of low morality. **#14.** Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler. **#15.** A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. **#16.** Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. **#17.** A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. **#18.** It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. **#19.** Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. **#20.** Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. **#21.** Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. **#22.** Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. **#23.** Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. **#24.** Information is not knowledge. **#25.** Never lose a holy curiosity. Cover photo by [Newton Graffiti](https://www.flickr.com/photos/newtown_grafitti/)