It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help 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 man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

My weapon is literature

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