When you know better you do better.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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

Industrialize or perish.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

My weapon is literature

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.