John W. Gardner Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

“The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.”

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”

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

“Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.”

“Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.”

“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”

“The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.”