I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess 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.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

My weapon is literature

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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