Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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

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

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.