If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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.

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

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.

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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.