Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.