It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.