No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

What thou lovest well remains.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.