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

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I cannot live without books.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

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