Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.