When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

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

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

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life