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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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.

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

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

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

My weapon is literature

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.