The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

My weapon is literature

When you know better you do better.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.