A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.