The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
My weapon is literature
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.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
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.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
