Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.