Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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