Know what you are talking about.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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 real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Industrialize or perish.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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