The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.