We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
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
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
