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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Dare to think for yourself.
I cannot live without books.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
