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

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.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Investigate, educate and organize.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.