The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
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.
Dare to think for yourself.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
I cannot live without books.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
I am a part of everything that I have read.