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.

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

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

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

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.