I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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.

I cannot live without books.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

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.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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.