“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.”

“Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.”

“Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.”

“The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.”