The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
My weapon is literature
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
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.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
