Creative Quotations from Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Albert Schweitzer
(1875-1965) born on Jan 14

French "theologian, musician, medical missionary". He was a brilliant scholar who became a missionary doctor to Africa; he won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious."

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is color-blind."

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	"Recalled on his death, 18 Apr 1955."
A:	""archy and mehitabel [tr. "certain maxims of archy"]," 1927."
N:	"In "The Peter Pyramid," by Laurence J. Peter."
K:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."