Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

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

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.