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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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