Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
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.
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.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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 think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
