Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

I cannot live without books.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.