The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.

We must depend on religion and education to change bad internal attitudes, but we need legislation to control the external effects of those bad internal attitudes. And so there is a need for meaningful civil right legislation.

It is one of the strange ironies of history, that in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal, men are still arguing over whether the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.