If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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

Industrialize or perish.

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

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.