The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
