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

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.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Dare to think for yourself.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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