Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Dare to think for yourself.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I cannot live without books.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Know what you are talking about.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.