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

When you know better you do better.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.