The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.