A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence ….

Example is better than precept..

I do not teach children, I give them joy..

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance..

Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or thr….

There's more learning than is taught in books..

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing..

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock..

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise..

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour..

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost..

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the….

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves..

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from pos….

Some of us are just less damaged than others..

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line..

If you want learning, you must work for it..

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages..

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do a….

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacki….

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you ….