You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Fools do not acknowledge God, the proud reject Him, the wise embrace Him, and the righteous worship Him.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

I was made acutely aware how far superior an education that stresses independent action and personal responsibility is to one that relies on drill, external authority and ambition.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.