Learning's purest form," Jones replied, "is realized by the individual who continues a quest beyond the classroom, fueled by a passion to discern wisdom. Wisdom—genuine truth—holds the key to refining one's thinking.

It is next to impossible to hear the voice of wisdom if we are not really listening for it to begin with. The best counsel in the world is wasted counsel if our minds are already made up.

Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.

Most of us want to be proven right more than we want to know what's true. We aren't on truth quests. We're on confirmation quests.

Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.

I've always been interested in many different things.

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.

I probably know everything there is to know about Disney.