Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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.
Investigate, educate and organize.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.