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

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

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

A witty saying proves nothing.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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.

My weapon is literature