“Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.”

“The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.”

“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”

“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”

“The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

“The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.”

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”