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.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

A witty saying proves nothing.

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.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.