None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.