I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

Industrialize or perish.

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.