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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

Know what you are talking about.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

A witty saying proves nothing.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

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