All that we know is nothing can be known. 

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. 

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

Repetition is the mother of education.