No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
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.
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.
My weapon is literature
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
When you know better you do better.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
