There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

A thought is an idea in transit.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

When you know better you do better.

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

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

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.