Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I cannot live without books.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

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

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.