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.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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.

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.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.