Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
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.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
The knowledge of all things is possible
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.