It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

Industrialize or perish.