All genuine learning comes through experience.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.