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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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