The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.