The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

My weapon is literature

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction