Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.