My weapon is literature
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
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.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
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.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
