Not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that’s why I talk so much.

The solutions all are simple—after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

The idea that “all men are created equal” is a gift to the world from the American Indian.

Stuckness shouldn’t be avoided. It’s the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.

Grades really cover up failure to teach.

The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior.

First you get the feeling, then you figure out why.

Like trying to keep a fatman out of the refrigerator. 'Lila

My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Science grows by its mu answers more than by its yes or no answers.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person.

Motivation of this sort, once it catches hold, is a ferocious force, and in the gradeless, degreeless institution where our student would find himself, he wouldn’t stop with rote engineering information.

What keeps the world from reverting to the Neanderthal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos... the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man...

Some things you miss because they’re so tiny you overlook them. But some things you don’t see because they’re so huge.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, “Go away, I’m looking for the truth,” and so it goes away.

One thing about pioneers that you don’t hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers.

Oh, the laws of physics and of logic…the number system…the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.

Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought

Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.

A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance.

A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristics of Quality