You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Know what you are talking about.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

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

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.