We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.