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

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

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

When you know better you do better.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

A thought is an idea in transit.