Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

When you know better you do better.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

I cannot live without books.

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

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.