Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

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

My weapon is literature

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Investigate, educate and organize.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Know what you are talking about.

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.

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.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.