Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

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.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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.

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.