My weapon is literature

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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