I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Know what you are talking about.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
A witty saying proves nothing.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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.
