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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

When you know better you do better.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

My weapon is literature

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Dare to think for yourself.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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

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

A thought is an idea in transit.