Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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

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.

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.