An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.