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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

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.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.