Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.