I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.