Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.