Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Industrialize or perish.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
