I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Dare to think for yourself.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
