Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
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.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
