The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Investigate, educate and organize.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.