Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
When you know better you do better.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
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.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.