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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

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

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

My weapon is literature

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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

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

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

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