Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like read more

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it read more

...each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.

One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

In quiet places, reason abounds.

Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at read more

Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however "worthy," to make judgments.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.

Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.