Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Industrialize or perish.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
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.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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.
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.
