The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books.
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art.
Knowledge exists in two forms — lifeless, stored in books, and alive in the consciousness of men.
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will!
Only daring speculation can lead us further, and not accumulation of facts.