The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is ….

To fail to love is not to exist at all..

There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human ….

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail..

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth..

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present..

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find i….

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I rec….

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark..

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery..

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste..

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of t….

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides ….

It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in his care….

I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I al….

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king..

I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of any….

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion..

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in..

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we h….

Our best chance for happiness is education..