It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
A thought is an idea in transit.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The knowledge of all things is possible
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.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
My weapon is literature
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
