The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

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

The best preparation for the future is a well-spent today.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.