In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Industrialize or perish.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
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.
Know what you are talking about.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.