Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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