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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

My weapon is literature

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

A witty saying proves nothing.