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

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

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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

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

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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.