To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

You don't need an ocean to feel like you're drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside your self, like a dead fish on the shore.

Any real Bob Dylan fan would sleep with Jonah Lehrer.

If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.

Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.