Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

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

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

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

My weapon is literature

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.