The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
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.
When you know better you do better.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
I cannot live without books.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.