What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

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

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.