Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

A thought is an idea in transit.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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