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

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

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.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

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

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

I cannot live without books.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

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

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

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