I cannot live without books.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.