I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
A thought is an idea in transit.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
I cannot live without books.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
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.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.