A child miseducated is a child lost.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

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.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.