A witty saying proves nothing.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

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

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.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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

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

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.