I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life