If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Know what you are talking about.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.