The total absence of humour in the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
A student should not be taught more than he can think about.
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
We think in generalities but we live in detail.
Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
A science which hesitates to forget its founders is lost.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.
Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal and no liberal education which is not technical.
Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.
Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground for it is the past and it is the future.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.