The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.