My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Dare to think for yourself.
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.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.