Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Know what you are talking about.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Industrialize or perish.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
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.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
