There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.