If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
When you know better you do better.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
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.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Dare to think for yourself.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
I cannot live without books.
