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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

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

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

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.

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.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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