Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

When you know better you do better.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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 am a part of everything that I have read.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Dare to think for yourself.

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

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

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

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

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

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.