Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the det… - Mortimer J. Adler

Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

...an adequate reform of public education in our school system cannot be accomplished by anything like a quick fix. We suspect that anyone who thinks otherwise cannot fully understand the shape of an adequate reform or all the obstacles to be overcome in achieving it.