If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

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.

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

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

A child miseducated is a child lost.