What is now proved was once only imagined.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
