For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
When you know better you do better.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
A thought is an idea in transit.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.