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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A witty saying proves nothing.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Investigate, educate and organize.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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