The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.