“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”

“Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

“My admittedly limited experience on the internet and with computer “information”, has revealed that this is a rather shallow sort of knowledge and impersonal sort of human connection. I think great books and real live human beings do a better job of making us wise, compassionate people.”

“It is not good for a man to be too cognizant of his physical and spiritual mechanisms. Complete knowledge reveals limits to human possibilities, and the less a man is by nature limited in his purposes, the less he can tolerate limits.”

“All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”

“It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it.”

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

“And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers.”

“Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.”

“Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.”