"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

"You can't be a philosopher and an activist. If you do, you get all mixed up."

"Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the aca…"

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through…"

"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea."

"Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are…"

"[Television, radio, and magazines] are so designed as to make thinking seem unnecessary (though this is only an appea…"

"Montaigne speaks of an “Abecedarian” ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it.…"

"To avoid this error, the error of assuming that that to be widely read and to be well read are the same thing, we mus…"

"It is obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing with only two other arts, agriculture and medicine, an exc…"