Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

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

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

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

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.