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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

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

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Industrialize or perish.

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

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.