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

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

My weapon is literature

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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.

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

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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.

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.