Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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