The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
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.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.