The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Industrialize or perish.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
