A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Dare to think for yourself.
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.
Know what you are talking about.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
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.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.