An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.