One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

When you know better you do better.

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

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.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.