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.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Know what you are talking about.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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.