Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

A witty saying proves nothing.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

I cannot live without books.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The highest result of education is tolerance.