I am a part of everything that I have read.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

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.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.