The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

For most of us the problem isn’t that we aim too high and fail - it’s just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

The unfinished character of human beings and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity.

You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.