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.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I cannot live without books.

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

Industrialize or perish.

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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