In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

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

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written form tends to select and record matters which are comparatively foreign to everyday life.

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.