A child miseducated is a child lost.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.