Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.