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

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

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.

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

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.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Know what you are talking about.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Investigate, educate and organize.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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