Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

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.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

When you know better you do better.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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