Dare to think for yourself.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Industrialize or perish.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.