Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.