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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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

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

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

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

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

When you know better you do better.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.