The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.