If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

When you know better you do better.

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

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