Charles Van Doren Inspirational Quotes (5)

I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.

I have learned a lot about good and evil - they are not always what they appear to be.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

Education in the West, particularly higher education in America, has lost the ability to see the universe from very far away.

I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.