Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Know what you are talking about.

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

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

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