Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

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.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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.

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

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.