Education is the transmission of civilization.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.