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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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