Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.