Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

My weapon is literature

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.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Learning never exhausts the mind.