Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.

Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Mind is a verb not a noun.