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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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

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.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.