Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I cannot live without books.

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.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.