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

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

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

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

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

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

It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.