Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

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

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.