Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
The knowledge of all things is possible
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
