Educational Sayings

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

'There is no impossibility,' said the Professor, 'for him who wills.'

I have a theory that it is impossible to be a good writer and a good person.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

I am a great admirer of the past, and I believe it is a great teacher.

I have been a victim of a kind of intellectual lynching.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

A poet must be a professor of the five senses.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

I am still a young man, and I have much to learn.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

The proper study of music is man.