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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

My weapon is literature

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.