Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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.
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.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
When you know better you do better.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion