Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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 secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

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

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

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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