Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Common sense needs constant reappraisal.