Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

When you know better you do better.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.