Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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.
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
