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.
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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Know what you are talking about.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
My weapon is literature
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.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
