I am a part of everything that I have read.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Industrialize or perish.
Dare to think for yourself.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.