With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I cannot live without books.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.