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

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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