If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
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.
Know what you are talking about.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
