“The most important question a seminary student must answer about his professor is not, 'Is he orthodox?,' but 'Is he honest?”

“Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.”

“A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.”

“Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade really mean? When a student "studied" did he do anything more than read and think-- or was there something special which no one in Walden Two would know about? Why did the professors lecture to the students? Were the students never expected to do anything except answer questions? Was it true that students were made to read books they were not interested in?”

“Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]”

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”