Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
I cannot live without books.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
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.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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.
My weapon is literature
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion