Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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.

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.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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

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

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