The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness 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.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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.

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.

I cannot live without books.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Industrialize or perish.