Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.