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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Investigate, educate and organize.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

When you know better you do better.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.