It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
My weapon is literature
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.