I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Industrialize or perish.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Know what you are talking about.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
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.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
