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

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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

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.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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

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

Know what you are talking about.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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