What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Industrialize or perish.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
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.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.