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

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

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

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.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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