Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
I cannot live without books.
