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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.