In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

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

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

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

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Industrialize or perish.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

I cannot live without books.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge