True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

The limitation in our ability to perceive broad distinctions in scope can be applied to our moral and temporal responses.... We agonize over a dinner menu, or have engine trouble on the way to work; and for seconds or minutes our cosmos shrinks to a miniscule volume of being, an epic of cheese sauces or tragedy of fanbelts.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.