The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.