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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

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

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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

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.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.