Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

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 thought is an idea in transit.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

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.