I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
My weapon is literature
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
When you know better you do better.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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 furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.