Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.