The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, th…

- Bernard Iddings Bell

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.

- Bernard Iddings Bell

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and…

- Bernard Iddings Bell

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved b…

- Bernard Iddings Bell

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

- Bernard Iddings Bell