An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
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.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.