I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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.