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

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

When you know better you do better.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

My weapon is literature

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Dare to think for yourself.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.