I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.