It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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

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

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

When you know better you do better.

Know what you are talking about.

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.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

A thought is an idea in transit.