I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

Industrialize or perish.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

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.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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

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.

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

I cannot live without books.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.