There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

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

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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

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

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.