No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.