I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

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.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

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