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.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country