Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

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

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Dare to think for yourself.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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.

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

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.