Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.