Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
A thought is an idea in transit.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.