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

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

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

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Industrialize or perish.

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

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.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.