Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Know what you are talking about.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Dare to think for yourself.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
My weapon is literature
