Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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.
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 more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
