Quotes by : John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy....

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.....

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government....

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers....

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become....

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the....

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own....

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the....