There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

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

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.