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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Know what you are talking about.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Learning never exhausts the mind.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.