Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Industrialize or perish.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.