Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Know what you are talking about.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.