My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
