The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
A witty saying proves nothing.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
My weapon is literature
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
