My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

One man encompasses all of humanity. Harming one man is harming humanity

Serving people is the best way to earn influence.

Logic pervades the world the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

It's not my fault all women like motorcycles, Murph. They're basically huge vibrators. With wheels.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

We are most often in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.