Hy Gardner Quotes
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.
Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience.
I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.
The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.
Although I believe in reincarnation, as many people do that live in the East, I do not remember my past lives clearly; I only wish I did.
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.
How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about
After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
My Body, My Soul and I. My body is mine, but my body is not me, My body is an expression of my soul. My soul is mine, but my soul is not me, My soul is an expression of me - for I am.
Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.
The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.
I take a lot of pride in playing for the Yankees, and trying to do things the right way.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
