The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
A thought is an idea in transit.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
The knowledge of all things is possible
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Dare to think for yourself.
