Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Play is the work of childhood.

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Experience precedes understanding.

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man it is the Great Wall of China between them!

Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

The way you look I understand how you were not impressed, but I heard you let that little friend of mine take off your party dress.

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

People say that jealousy is the greatest enemy of love. They’re wrong. The greatest enemy of love is boredom.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Personal voice- prophesy- disrupts the state of communal numbness in which most of us exist.