The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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

When you know better you do better.

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

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

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.