I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
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.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.