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

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Know what you are talking about.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

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

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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

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

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