If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

I cannot live without books.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Know what you are talking about.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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