A thought is an idea in transit.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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.

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.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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