Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.