Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The knowledge of all things is possible