A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Investigate, educate and organize.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.