No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
A thought is an idea in transit.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
When you know better you do better.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Know what you are talking about.
