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

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The knowledge of all things is possible

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.