The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
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.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Investigate, educate and organize.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
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.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.