Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities—regardless of where and when they occur.

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

It's hard to get by just upon a smile.

The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

I think the word rich is all relative.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!