If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
