The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.