Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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