You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.