My weapon is literature

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

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

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Know what you are talking about.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.