You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Know what you are talking about.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Dare to think for yourself.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.