A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
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.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
When you know better you do better.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
