The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Industrialize or perish.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
