Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
I cannot live without books.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.