Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.