An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.