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.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
A thought is an idea in transit.
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.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
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.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
