Everyone is a philosopher. Not everyone is good at it.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.