Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Knowledge is justified belief.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.

The fish will be the last to discover water.