Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Know what you are talking about.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
My weapon is literature
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
