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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

When you know better you do better.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Industrialize or perish.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.