Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

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

I cannot live without books.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

Industrialize or perish.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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 most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Learning never exhausts the mind.