A child miseducated is a child lost.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
A thought is an idea in transit.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Industrialize or perish.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
When you know better you do better.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.