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

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

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

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

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

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

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

My weapon is literature

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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