Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.