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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.