The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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.

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

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.