In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

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

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.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Systems, scientific or philosophic, come and go. Each method of limited understanding is at length exhausted. In its prime each system is a triumphant success: in its decay it is an obstructive nuisance.