The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.