The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.