Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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

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.