I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Investigate, educate and organize.
My weapon is literature
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
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.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Learning never exhausts the mind.