Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
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 books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
My weapon is literature
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
