The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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.

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

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.