Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I cannot live without books.

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.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Investigate, educate and organize.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

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