If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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

I cannot live without books.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.