Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
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.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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 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.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The highest result of education is tolerance.