Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Dare to think for yourself.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
