I am a part of everything that I have read.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

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.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

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.

Dare to think for yourself.

When you know better you do better.