I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

When you know better you do better.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

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.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

Industrialize or perish.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

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