God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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.
Industrialize or perish.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.