The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.