The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.
He who keeps his cool best wins.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Laughter is inner jogging.
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
