Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Dare to think for yourself.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.