I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
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
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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 first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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.
Dare to think for yourself.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
