“In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.”

“Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.”

“We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.”

“The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the easier always to get your own.”

“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”

“I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.”

“If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...”