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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

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

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

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

When you know better you do better.

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

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