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

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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.

When you know better you do better.

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

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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.

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

My weapon is literature

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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