A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

When you know better you do better.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.