Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.