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.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Investigate, educate and organize.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
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.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.