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

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.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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

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.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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