Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

I cannot live without books.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.