A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

When you know better you do better.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

My weapon is literature