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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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.

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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.