“Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.”

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

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.

Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.

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

Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.

We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.

The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.

We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

The future of Japan’s economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.

Sex & World Peace shows us how gender inequality is a form of violence that impacts everything from population growth to economies to regime type.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it’s not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.