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

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

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

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

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.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I cannot live without books.

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

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

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.