Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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