The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
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.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
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.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
