Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Dare to think for yourself.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
When you know better you do better.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.