Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

A child miseducated is a child lost.