The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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

Know what you are talking about.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

A witty saying proves nothing.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

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

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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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