The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Investigate, educate and organize.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

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