Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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.

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

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.

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

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

I cannot live without books.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.