The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
