I am a part of everything that I have read.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
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.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
When you know better you do better.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
A witty saying proves nothing.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The highest result of education is tolerance.