Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.