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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

A thought is an idea in transit.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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.

My weapon is literature

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Courage, conviction and confidence.