Industrialize or perish.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

Dare to think for yourself.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

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

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.