Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
A thought is an idea in transit.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
