Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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.

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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

When you know better you do better.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

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