Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
My weapon is literature
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.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Investigate, educate and organize.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
