Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Know what you are talking about.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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.
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.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
My weapon is literature
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
The knowledge of all things is possible
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.