Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
