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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.