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.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Industrialize or perish.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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.

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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.