The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.