Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.