Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
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.
My weapon is literature
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
