Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

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