The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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