Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.