I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
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.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
