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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I cannot live without books.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.