Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Know what you are talking about.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.