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

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.