Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think