You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.