Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

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

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