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

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

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

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Dare to think for yourself.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.