Noam Chomsky

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.

Noam Chomsky

Education doesn’t determine how you earn, education determines how you spend.

Noam Chomsky

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Noam Chomsky

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

Noam Chomsky

Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you’re willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.

Noam Chomsky

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Noam Chomsky

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Noam Chomsky

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Noam Chomsky

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

If you are giving a graduate course you don’t try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

Noam Chomsky