“The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.”

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.

As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.

We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .

The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.

We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound

Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application

The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.

No matter your age, stage of life, or circumstances, don’t forget to dare to dream with God. You don’t have to figure anything out. Just keep saying yes to Him, in big ways and small, and watch what He does.

What an intimidating kind of beauty a rainbow holds. Then of course, there’s the jealously dripping between vampirish teeth of those who dare mock it.

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are.

it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.

Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Don’t you dare die on me, Bob! I’ll freakin’ kill you if you die!