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

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

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

A witty saying proves nothing.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Know what you are talking about.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

My weapon is literature

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

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

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

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