I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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.
