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

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

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.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

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

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.