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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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