“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.”

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

“Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!”

“Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written”

“In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.”