We are tied down, all our days and for the greater part of our days, to the commonplace. That is where contact with the great thinkers, great literature helps. In their company we are still in the ordinary world, but it is the ordinary world transfigured and seen through the eyes of wisdom and genius. And some of their genius becomes ours. . . in The Great Conversation

As Thomas Hobbes said, "If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Read it quickly and with total immersion.

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

If you get a chance to coach against one of your mentors, and a guy that taught you almost kind of the foundation of what you know about this game, I think it would be a fun, humbling opportunity.

I got my initiation into the Middle East in 1969 when I went there to teach at the American University in Cairo for two years.

Try to learn something about everything.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!