Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.