It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.