Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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