I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The knowledge of all things is possible
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
