“Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.”

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.

The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.

Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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

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

In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

A problem well put is half solved.

In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.

We only think when confronted with a problem.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.

There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

We can get better results with ourselves and others by asking better questions.

Success is the result of hard work.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

Don’t confuse who you are with the results that you produce.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.