Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times; few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.