I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
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.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
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.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
