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.

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Dare to think for yourself.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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