Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed.