Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.