Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.