Courage, conviction and confidence.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.