Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
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.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
