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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

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