Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.