I cannot live without books.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

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

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.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

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