Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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

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.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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