Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A thought is an idea in transit.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.