God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.