"Alas! how much there is in education,..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.”

“Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.”

“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine”

“Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.”

“Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.”

“The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.”

“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”

“Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.”

“An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.”