Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

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.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

My weapon is literature

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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.