Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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

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

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

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