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

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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

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