The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.