Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

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

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement