I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Know what you are talking about.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

When you know better you do better.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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