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

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

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

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

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

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

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.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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