I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Know what you are talking about.

My weapon is literature

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.