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.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

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

Know what you are talking about.

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

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.