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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.