The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Industrialize or perish.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

When you know better you do better.