God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

When you know better you do better.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The knowledge of all things is possible

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.